Sentence examples for chief explanation from inspiring English sources

The chief explanation for the fourth-quarter setback was poor exports.

But the chief explanation is the enduring charm of the tale.

The chief explanation for the correlation is the great uncertainty facing investors — mainly over the crisis in Europe, which has raised the specter of the potential bankruptcy of governments and a collapse of the banking system.

The chief explanation for the decline in numbers for "X-Factor" this season was the competition from "The Voice," which Fox executives have gone to great lengths to disparage as a lesser imitation of the real thing.

Mr. Greenspan has argued that an accelerating rate of productivity growth is the chief explanation for the boom that started in the mid-1990's as American companies increased their investments in computer-based information technologies, including the Internet.

His chief explanation of human motivation centered on a literary theory that all desire is "mimetic," or imitative, sparked by the desires of other people.

However, recent data from San Francisco investigators demonstrates that virologic suppression is improving, and circulating levels of viremia are decreasing, arguing against poor engagement in care or poor adherence as chief explanations for our results [15].

Lagacé dismissed the police chief's explanation.

When we left the island, Suliman told me that he didn't accept the chief's explanation.

Merritt said the chief's explanation differs from that of witnesses.

The chief alternative explanation – to homology – for common features of different molecules is that they have common functional constraint.